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The 12-Day Cycle

by JL Beeken on 2-24-2013

ActionOutlineI’m midstream the 4th time around my 12-day cycle and it’s going well. In fact it’s going so well I wonder how I ever handled my computer life any other way. … [continued]

The Check List

by JL Beeken on 2-04-2013

At the top of each of my 12 outlines in ActionOutline is a check list.

Check List, ActionOutline

… [continued]

The Red Flag List

by JL Beeken on 2-02-2013

Red Flag ListSo, where was I? Right.The red flag list. Preamble at Reasonable Expectations and So, What’s Important?

It’s been about six months since I hit my limit with trying to cram too many things into not enough time. Time being the insurmountable factor.
… [continued]

Desktop Mind Map: One Month Later

by JL Beeken on 1-31-2012

FreePlaneThe desktop mind map that I started using New Year’s Day is a study of time. Not enough time. Wasted time. The value of my time. What am I going to do with my time? How much time does it take? How do I balance my time? … [continued]

FreePlaneI had a to-do list. I’ve had an endless to-do list for years. I did not have specific goals written down. All I had to do was work backwards putting the to-do’s in the mind map into the goals that spawned them. This is easy. … [continued]

FreePlaneHere we are in 2012. And it only took a minute. … [continued]

FreePlaneThis was not on my to-do list for today but it came to me while I was taking a nap. Napping is on my priority list. … [continued]

ActionOutline: An Alternative to OneNote

by JL Beeken on 11-13-2011

ActionOutlineI’m back to ActionOutline. I tried to use Microsoft OneNote. It didn’t work. That’s the last time I’m moving 1,000+ notes. … [continued]

FreeplaneSomeone wrote to me about filtering mind maps using FreeMind. FreePlane is the same thing, just a more updated version of FreeMind.

So, I took a few minutes and made some discoveries. You can add icons and attributes to nodes and then filter them. Like adding keywords or tags to photos and then doing a search to narrow things down. … [continued]

The Idea Book

by JL Beeken on 2-23-2011

This is one more for the Idea Book. Everyone should have one.

Someone left a brilliant comment over at Jasia’s blog awhile back. Jasia was asking for ideas on downsizing as she got ready to move from her long-time home to a smaller condo. The commenter was T.K.

T.K. has six blogs. Obviously a thinking person and she brought up the idea of “Toss Ten Things”. I like it. I’m trying to apply it to my computer. … [continued]